Volume-XII, Issue-II, March 2026 |
সুভাষ মুখোপাধ্যায়ের ‘ফুল ফুটুক’ পর্যায়ের কবিতায় গল্প বলার শিল্পকৌশল ড. সৌরভ মজুমদার, স্বাধীন গবেষক, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
Received: 13.03.2026 | Accepted: 13.03.2026 | Published Online: 31.03.2026 | Page No: | ||||
DOI: 10.29032/ijhsss.vol.12.issue.02W. | |||||||
The Art of Storytelling in Subhash Mukhopadhyay’s “Phul Phutuk” Phase of Poetry Dr. Sourav Majumder, Independent Research Scholar, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
Storytelling is one of the most ancient practices of humankind. Since the archaic form of literature was poetry, the medium of those stories—told through generations, were also various kinds of poems. The Epics, such as Ramayana or Iliad are practically stories told or written in the form of poems. Thus, storytelling through poems is a tradition that was followed all over the world. At the wake of Bengali literature, the Charyapadas also contained many stories weaved in a poetic form. The middle age of Bengali Literature, ‘Madhyayug’ consisted of Mangalkavyas and Vaishnava Padavalis, which also tried to tell stories of Gods, Human Rebellion or eternal love in a metric expression. This ongoing tradition of storytelling through rhythms apparently came to an end in Nineteenth Century, when the literary forms of Novel and Short Stories were introduced. The era of concocting literary epics like ‘Meghnadhbadh Kavya’ ended, grand stories disappeared from the rhythmic cage of poetry, and what the new ‘lyric poetry’ tried to express was the inner mechanisms of human mind in its smaller, condensed structure. These limitations of ‘lyric’ could not erase the eternal impulse of storytelling though. When lyric poems started to contain stories, the form of storytelling itself started to change according to the aesthetic of that specific literary body. The poems of Subhas Mukhopadhyay embodied that unyielding, generational spirit of satorytelling, while also providing a fitting format in which stories could be successfully adapted in lyrical structure. | ||
Keywords: Subhas Mukhopadhyay, ‘Phool Phutuk’, Stories in poetry, Socio-political situation, Hegemony |